Thomas drake



T. BRAKE. Coffeel Roaster.

Patented June 7, 1870.

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THOMASDRAIIAE, or cINcINNATI, o'HIc.

lLetters Patent No. 103,998, lated Jane 7, 1870.

COMBINED ROASTER AND BROILER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, THOMAS DRAKE, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Convertible Ooi'- fee-Roaster and Meat-Broiler, of which the following I is a specification.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

lGeneral Description with reference to the Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my coffee-toaster without its cove-r, a portion of the shell or pan being broken away.

Figures 2 and 3 are a transverse and longitudinal section of the same in its covered condition.

` Figure 4 is a perspective view of my base or stand adapted for broiling.

Figure 5 is a transverse section of the same, in its covered condition.

A is my stand or base, consisting of four vertical, or nearly vertical walls, a, forming an open rectangle, and surrounded at bottom by a horizontal foot or ange a. Each end of the said base has, in its top edge, two notches, a", to receive the handles ot the broiler.

Fitted to iill and occupy the opening of the base is a pan, B, havin gt-he form of a cylindrical segment of about two hundred and sixty "degrees, or somewhat-in excess of a semicircle. A

lhis pan is furnished with heads, G, which converge or batter inwardly toward. the bottom of the pan, inthe manner represented, and projecting externally from these heads are pins or lugs, D, which, resting upon the top of thebase, maintain the pan in a steady position thereon. Surrounding the pan,a littlebelow its rim, is a bead, E, which, besides stif'ening the pan,

serves as a ledge to support a cover, F, which, with the pan B,forms a complete cylinder.

J ournaledaxially in the cylinder B F is the shaft C of my agitator G H H H, armed with a cent-ral V-formed blade, H, and two oblique blades, H H, as represented.

These blades revolve nearly in contact with the cylinder, and operate, by their revolution, to constantly scoop up the stratum 'of kernels in contact with the pan, and permit their place to be supplied by the less roasted particles, so as to produce a very even roasting action.

lhe panB .being somewhat in excess of a semi-cylindrical segment, the coffee is carried bythe blades ll H H to a position where its tendency is to fallaway 'from the concave surface before reaching the joint or line of junction between the pan and cover, instead oll choking and cutting by lodgement in said joint, as occurs in those roasters whose parting is in the horizontal plane ot their axis, nor is the coffee liable to jam between the blades H H and the ends of the pan, as it would be were those ends vertical.

Formed to hang within the base A is a grid or rack, I, whose handles. j rest within notches a", in the tcp edge ol' said base.

The cover F, iitting equally well on the pan B or on the base A, is available to confine the heat and fumes in either application ot my improvement, whether as a coliee-roaster or as a meat-broiler.

O faim.

The convertible coffee-master and meat-broiler, sub- ,i

THOMAS BRAKE. 

